Why can the cookie cutters come in handy?

Homemade cookies - what can be tastier and more interesting, especially if the house has children? With what joy the little ones perceive their mother's words: "Today we will bake cookies!" With what rapture they help to knead the dough, and then cut the pechenyushki! That's why every good mother should have at home a wide variety of biscuit tins. Fortunately, in our time to acquire them is not difficult: in almost every specialized store or even in the simple economic forms of such a huge choice. You can find for every taste: plastic with special handles for holding, and metal ones, for flat cookies or voluminous, in the form of figures of animals, letters, figures and even thematic ones, for example, for the New Year and Christmas.

Do you make cookies for yourself? Easily!

But what to do if you want cookies, but do not have a mold at hand? Or is it, but not as necessary? In this case, do not despair, you can make the right form yourself. To do this, you need a tin can, for example from condensed milk, scissors, cardboard and a pencil. On the cardboard it is necessary to draw the necessary figure: the key, the heart, the Christmas tree - and cut. From the washed jars cut off the tin strip, then gently bending, to give it the desired shape. Be careful not to be injured by a sharp edge: it is better to bend it. At the junction of the tin strip, solder or fasten in any other way.

Thus we make several different figures. Everything, cookie cutters are ready, you can start baking! And here is the recipe for a delicious dessert.

Bake cookies

For cooking, you need: half a glass of flour, two tablespoons of starch (you can corn), a glass of powdered sugar, two-thirds of a packet of butter.
For decoration: two glasses of powdered sugar, one fourth cup of milk, as much syrup, a teaspoon of some extract (vanilla, mint, lemon), decorations for confectionery products (sprinkles, dyes, pencils). From the ingredients listed, knead the dough and place it briefly in the refrigerator. Then roll out into a thin layer and, using the biscuit molds, cut out the figures. Bake products do not last long, 20 minutes is enough. While the cookies are in the oven, it's worth making a glaze: mix the powder and milk with a whisk, add the extract, and then experiment. Cool down the dessert decorate the way your fantasy will allow you.

Treat for ... birds!

In winter cold, many people think about our smaller brothers, including the birds. It becomes difficult for birds to obtain food, so the right decision will be to feed them. And you can even do it fun: make food for birds using cookie cutlery. All that is needed is a varied food, a little flour, a starch for gluing and boiling water. Mix all the ingredients and then put them into the cookie molds, forming holes through which the ribbons will be passed. Wait until the food hardens, enter the shoestring, remove the molds and hang a delicacy for the birds on the trees. This use of forms for baking poultry will be appreciated.